India

 Classified ?

The data is rudimentary. The analysis is poor. And is kept secret

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
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Environment Politics, Forest Villages, Forest Fires, Deforestation, Timber Smuggling, Forest Movements, Legislation, Governance, Politics, Bangladesh, India, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa (Odisha), West Bengal, Siliguri, Naxalites, Tribals
India

 System error

The death of India s cancer control programme and the rise of cancers

Publication Date: 
30/12/2001
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Environment Politics, Forest Villages, Forest Fires, Deforestation, Timber Smuggling, Forest Movements, Legislation, Governance, Politics, Bangladesh, India, Andhra Pradesh, Jharkhand, Orissa (Odisha), West Bengal, Siliguri, Naxalites, Tribals
Industry

 Blowing out a tradition

The ban on conch shell trading has sent the industry into a tizzy

Publication Date: 
14/12/2001
Jayanta Basu
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Trade, Endangered Species, Religious Beliefs, Industry, Legislation, Government Of India (GOI), Assam, Delhi, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Kerala, Orissa (Odisha), Tamil Nadu, Tripura, Uttar Pradesh, West Bengal
Mining

 Fighting for survival

Shrinking habitat due to deforestation has forced elephants to enter human territory in Orissa's Keonjhar district

Publication Date: 
14/05/2001
Satyasundar Barik
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Forests, Mining, Deforestation, Trees, Habitat, Housing, Tribals, Women, Children, Elephant, Jharkhand, Keonjhar (D)
India

 KOEL KARO

A report compiled by the Delhi Forum, a Delhi-based non-governmental organisation, on Koel Karo killings of February 2, 2001, has alleged that the police fired at unarmed protestors without any

Publication Date: 
30/03/2001
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Dams, Koel Karo, Displacement, Legislation, Public Participation, NGO, Delhi, Jharkhand
India

 INDIA

• The 11th Planning Commission has directed the Karnataka government to focus on ways to encourage the herbal medicine sector. At least 55 per cent of the medicinal plants that have been

Publication Date: 
30/03/2001
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Atlas, Information, India, Gujarat, Jharkhand, Orissa (Odisha), Rajasthan, Food Security
Mining

 Koel Karo firing

Six protesters are killed

Publication Date: 
14/03/2001
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Environment Impact Assessment (EIA), Koel Karo, Hydroelectricity, Public Participation, Jharkhand
India

 Open and shut case

Total forest cover of CHATTISGARH, UTTARANCHAL and JHARKHAND

Publication Date: 
14/01/2001
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Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand)
Water Resources

 Chattisgarh

Fighting the drought preoccupies the new government. Charting a mining policy to explore the rich mineral deposits is next on the agenda

Publication Date: 
14/01/2001
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Water Resources, Forest Resources, Forest Policy, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Economic Development, Public Participation, Governance, Panchayats, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Sustainable Development
Water Resources

 Uttaranchal

The process of alienating people from natural resources has not stopped, even with the attainment of statehood

Publication Date: 
14/01/2001
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Water Resources, Forest Resources, Forest Policy, Joint Forest Management (JFM), Economic Development, Public Participation, Governance, Panchayats, Bihar, Chhattisgarh, Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Uttar Pradesh, Uttaranchal (Uttarakhand), Sustainable Development

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